Nanci Griffith piosenki

He will leave behind all of his clothes He wore when he was with her All he need's are his railroad boots And his leather jacket As he say goodbye to Ruby's arms Although his heart is breaking He will steal away out through her blinds For soon she will be waki...

Saint Teresa, your patron childs come home. Were you there to greet her? Did your angels know her songs? And all of her sorrows: Did you lift them from her brow? And did you kiss her hand that took her soul back up to you? Our patron saint of harmony and vow....

Never saw the morning till I stayed up all night Never saw the sunshine till I turned out the light Never saw my home town till I stayed away too long I never heard the melody till I needed the song Never saw the white line till I was leavin' you behind Never...

When you say I love you Is it just because you know that's what I want to hear? Lately friends are warning me What they hesitate to tell me leaves a thread of fear People talk around this town And when the final truth comes down There's only one thing left to...

Snowing, through South Dakota I once drove, With the wife of my best pal, Who cloaks her heart from cold with gold. It was well into the winter, Of December in the cold. Off to see Mount Rushmore, Staring through the snow. And to gamble with the boys of Deadwo...

I heard the music long ago Songs that rent the air Fading in and out at night While I was lying there Voices soft and lonely and later Rock and Roll Flying across the Rio Grande Straight into my soul Trying to find a reason Trying to find that rhyme Rolling w...

Summer Sunday evening, around the old home place Well, I would play my guitar and sister sang along Sister's smile would always light up my Daddy's face And when they'd get to dancing, well they'd dance all night till dawn [Chorus:] And I would sing one for s...

My daddy sent me on to Baton Rouge in 1969 He said our love was like a forest fire and he'd end it with a mind So you rode with us to Temple, Texas where I did catch the train And I remember waving back at you from a silted window pane [Chorus:] And I said fa...

I'm sitting on a southbound train Staring at the sky I'm thinking of my childhood And I'm trying not to cry While a stranger sleeps against me And it feels like I'm his wife Towns and cities flutter past Like the pages of my life My heart is on the baggage rac...

You come home late And you come home early You come on big When you're feelin' small You come home straight And you come home curly Sometimes you don't come home at all [Chorus:] So what in the world's come over you? What in heavens name have you done? You've...

I could use a little spin on a red brick floor In that crazy ol' bar when Tim locks the door Where the walls are gonna ring and the strings are gonna bend And it's a buss on the cheek from all my old lovers again Oh. the Blue Ridge mountains at the fall of th...

Drinking black market vodka in the back of the Scottsman's saloon Then it's red meat and whiskey like a coyote drunk on the moon Outside in Oslo the buskers' all sing the same tune And it's Waltzin' Matilda while the bagpipes play old Clare de Lune She was a...

You walked the line All your life You never thought you'd have to change it You're always there to give advice You never thought you'd have to take it It's still life, but it's broken It's still life, when it's torn It's still life that you're walking On and...

Never hit seventeen When you play against the dealer You know that the odds Won't ride with you And never leave your woman alone With your friends around to steal her She'll be gambled and gone Like summer wages And we'll keep rollin' on 'Til we get to Vancou...

I'm sleepin' less in L.A. Dreamin' of days yet to come Oh, and I don't care what you say I know that those days will surely come I'm wakin' and I'm callin' I'm shakin' and I'm fallin' Oh, little darlin' I wonder when those sweet dreams Will come There's a ho...

Sometimes I don't know what I'm doing 'Cause sometimes all my days are filled with rain As I travel down life's higway, things ain't going my way 'Cause there's always someone swervin' in my lane You keep a swervin' in my lane and it's causing' lots of danger...

I should have known that you were gone back in Germany You told me in the dark while I was sleeping Then you slept through the sunrise As it washed across your face And all that I had heard were our hearts beating [Chorus:] Talk to me while I'm listening Whil...

The name she gave was Caroline Daughter of a miner And her ways were free and it seemed to me The sunshine walked beside her She came to Spencer, across the hill She said her pa had sent her 'Cause the coal was low and soon the snow Would turn the skies to wi...

[Chorus:] Tell me how to keep your love You know how I need your love Tell me how you keep the love Within your heart from me Don't you know that I love you Let me show why; I'm true blue When I know a love is true Don't keep your love for me If you would sa...

He was standing by the highway With a sign that just said Mother When he heard a driver coming About a half a mile away So he held the sign up higher Where no decent soul could miss it It was ten degrees or colder Down by Boulder Dam that day He was raised up...